Director, Operations Transformation & Lean Excellence

Legrand; Minnetonka (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Legrand seeks an Operations Transformation Director to lead cross-functional programs across Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, IT and Shared Services. You will define transformation roadmaps, drive value realization, and build capability through lean, digitalization and governance.

Responsibilities include footprint optimization, process simplification, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and working capital while coaching leaders through change and ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience, including large-scale transformation, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, commercial, or shared services experience; minimum of 5 years supervisory/management experience.
• Proven ability to implement digital solutions, drive process improvement, influence executive leaders, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a focused transformation roadmap aligned with business priorities, growth objectives, and operational performance needs.
• Lead selected cross-functional transformation programs from opportunity identification through implementation and benefit realization.
• Establish simple governance, milestones, ownership, and executive reporting to ensure progress, alignment, and accountability.
• Support manufacturing and supply chain footprint definition and optimization to improve cost, quality, service, lead time, resilience, and scalability.
• Simplify flows, reduce unnecessary handoffs, and improve the way work moves across sites, suppliers, and functions.
• Enable Joint Design Manufacturing initiatives with engineering, sourcing, suppliers, and operations to improve manufacturability, quality, cost, and speed to market.
• Apply lean, quality management, and continuous improvement methods to simplify processes, remove bottlenecks, and improve execution.
• Facilitate value-stream mapping and end-to-end process redesign where it creates meaningful business impact.
• Define practical performance measures to track productivity, quality, service, cycle time, and working capital improvements.
• Promote practical use of digital tools, automation, analytics, dashboards, and self-service capabilities to improve visibility and decision-making.
• Partner with IT and business leaders to reduce manual work, improve data quality, and standardize key processes.
• Build readiness for change through communication, stakeholder alignment, training, and leader engagement.
• Coach teams to adopt new ways of working and strengthen internal capability in transformation, lean, quality, and digital practices.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Change leadership

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA preferred

Tools

SAP

Power BI

ERP systems

Dashboards

Job description

Legrand seeks an Operations Transformation Director to lead cross-functional programs across Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, IT and Shared Services. You will define transformation roadmaps, drive value realization, and build capability through lean, digitalization and governance.

Responsibilities include footprint optimization, process simplification, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and working capital while coaching leaders through change and ensuring